فاح

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ف و ح (f-w-ḥ). Also compare فَاخَ (fāḵa), نَفَحَ (nafaḥa), نَفَخَ (nafaḵa), فَحَّ (faḥḥa), Aramaic פּוּחַ / ܦܘܚ (fūḥa, to exhale, to give out odour).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faː.ħa/

Verb

فَاحَ • (fāḥa) I, non-past يَفُوحُ‎ (yafūḥu)

  1. (intransitive) to fragrate, to reek, to smell, to odorate; to diffuse, to forspread (said of odors as of blood)

Conjugation

Verb

فَاحَ • (fāḥa) I, non-past يَفِيحُ‎ (yafīḥu)

  1. (intransitive) to diffuse, to forspread

Conjugation

References

  • pwḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • فاح” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فاح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 379
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فاح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 986
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